PU dept can't do the math, converts 90 to 16

BENGALURU: When the second pre-university results came out recently, SM Riyaz, a high-scoring student, found himself gawking in shock at his marks for Kannada. Apparently, he had scored 16 out of 100.

This PU student from Davanagere was nothing less than brilliant in the subject, so he knew there was something wrong. Sure enough, a request for a photocopy of his answer script confirmed that he had scored not 16, but 90. It was a clear error on the part of the evaluator, who scribbled the wrong number on the result sheet.

But Riyaz was not the only student to get the shock. M Basalinga Patil faced a similar situation. This II PU student too couldn't believe that he had scored just 43 in economics. The photocopies revealed he had actually scored 93.

This was another classic case of not recording the results properly on the OMR sheet.

The PU department argued that these were one-off cases and the students could always get their scores corrected through a revaluation.Riyaz, however, may beg to differ. The boy couldn't attend his document verification process for CET as he was declared `failed'.

He now needs to wait for the PU department to update the correct score so that he can send the documents to CET, which would announce an intermediate rank.

A PU official said: "These are a few cases reported this year. As a policy, we refund the re-evaluation fee for all students who get an upward revision of four or more marks in science subjects and six or more marks in non-science subjects. So, students need not worry about the issue."

Also, an official noted that evaluators who made such mistakes were made to pay a penalty.